On November 18, 2006, a medieval castle outside Rome, Italy, was filled with Hollywood stars.
It turned out that Tom Cruise and Katie Helms were going to have a wedding on this day, and superstar Will Smith, as a good friend of Atango, also arrived at the scene to send his blessings.
At this time, the "I Am Legend" crew in New York, but because they could not find the lead actor in a mess, they almost called the police, but they saw the figure of Will Smith from the news, yes, Will Smith is the protagonist of "I Am Legend".
Released at the end of 2007, "I Am Legend" was a sensation in the world at the beginning of its release, winning multiple awards, and finally achieved a proud result of nearly 4.4 billion (RMB) at the global box office, and was rated by fans as the originator of zombie films.
What exactly is this film about? Why is it considered a classic? Today, Xiaoying will take you to review it together.
In New York, USA, the TV news broadcast a blockbuster news, scientists have overcome the cancer problem, developed a way to cure cancer by controlling the virus, unfortunately another virus has been mutated and derived, spread through the air, and spread rapidly.
The president had to order the city to be blockaded so that uninfected people could leave, a move that caused panic among the population and the city of New York was in chaos.
Robert is a talented biologist who serves the military.
He hurried to find a helicopter to send his wife and daughter out of town, while he stayed here to develop a vaccine.
As they parted, the daughter left her dog Sam with her father, and as a result, a helicopter got out of control and crashed into the helicopter they were on, and Robert watched as his wife and daughter were killed in front of him.
The picture turns, it is already three years later, when most of the people on the earth are dead, and New York has become an empty city, and the city is desolate and overgrown with weeds.
Living humans have also mutated into zombies because of the virus, and they can't see the light and hide in the dark. Robert was the only survivor in New York City because of his natural immunity to the virus.
Robert takes Sam out during the day in search of supplies and energy, while hiding in his home at night to study how to cure zombies.
In this extremely lonely situation, Robert is very disciplined and maintains a lot of physical training every day.
He constantly sends out broadcasts to find survivors like himself, chats with the old friends of the "model" dummies when renting discs in the video store, and is shy when he sees the beautiful dummies, asking old friends for information about female dummies.
Robert looks like a neurotic, but in fact he just wants to fight loneliness through these ways.
One day, Robert accidentally found a serum that can cure the virus, and he was surprised and happy, and decided to find an opportunity to catch a zombie for human experiments.
So he laid a trap and successfully caught a female zombie, he took the female zombie to the laboratory and injected it with serum, but to no avail, the human experiment failed, which disappointed him.
Life went on, and Robert continued to broadcast in the harbor day after day. On the way back this day, he suddenly found that the dummy who was originally in the video store had been moved and ran to the street.
There is only one human being in the whole of New York, what exactly moved him over?
Robert was horrified, overwhelmed by the loneliness, and he completely exploded. He was furious at the dummies and even shot at them, and when he calmed down, he stepped forward to check and unconsciously walked into a pool of sewage. A rope silently wrapped around his ankle, and a car suddenly fell, hanging him upside down, and he fainted directly.
It turned out to be a trap.
When Robert woke up again, Sam barked anxiously at him because it was about to get dark. He quickly took out his dagger and cut the rope, but when it fell, the knife plunged into his thigh, and he could only move slowly to the side of the car.
As the last rays of sunlight disappeared, the infected hairless dog rushed over, and the faithful Sam immediately greeted it and tore at it. After a fierce fight, the vicious dog is defeated, but Sam is also bitten.
Robert quickly took Sam home, vaccinated him, and sat down on the ground with Sam in his arms, but the vaccine did not work, and Sam's eyes and teeth began to mutate slowly.
In order to prevent Sam from turning into an infected vicious dog, Robert endured his grief and strangled it with his own hands, losing his only companion.
After burying Sam, Robert goes to the video store to say goodbye to the dummy, and then drives to the harbor, hoping to take a suicidal revenge with the zombies.
The only partner is gone, Robert's spirit has collapsed, since it is so painful to live, let's die together! I don't know how many zombies were killed, the car was also overturned by the zombies, and in a strong light, Robert fainted...
When He woke up, Robert found himself in his home, and it turned out that it was the heroine Anna who had saved him. Anna heard Robert's radio before she came looking for it.
Anna said there is a place where there is a human settlement, where there is no virus infested with low temperatures all year round. Inspired, Robert used ice cubes to cool the zombies and get vaccinated to see how well they worked.
Suddenly there was a zombie roar outside the door, and it turned out that anna had forgotten to eliminate the smell when she entered the door yesterday and was tracked by the zombie. Robert detonated a car bomb and killed a bunch of them, but the zombies came in.
The three of them quickly hid in the laboratory and found that the female zombie situation had improved, and the vaccine really worked for her after the cooling.
Robert gave Anna the vaccine and hid her and the child in a cupboard. As the zombie smashed through the blast door, he pulled out a grenade and died with the zombie.
After that, Anna and the child came to the human gathering area with the vaccine and were safely rescued. End of film.
This is the original ending of "I Am Legend", in fact, the director also made another ending.
Seeing that the security door was about to shatter, the zombie suddenly stopped attacking, drawing a butterfly on the door, Robert opened the female zombie's clothes and found that there was also a butterfly tattooed, it turned out that the zombie was a leader, the female zombie was his wife, and it wanted to take back his partner.
Robert pulled out the female zombie's needle, and with courage, opened the door and pushed it out, the zombie leader saw that he had a good attitude, did not hurt him, picked up his wife and left.
The next day the three drove to the safe zone with the vaccine and started a new life.
However, due to the fact that this version of the ending was accidentally leaked by the staff, in order to ensure the mystery of the film, the director finally re-shot another version of the tragic ending.
The filming method of "I Am Legend" is very novel, different from the previous apocalyptic films such as fierce fighting, dark pictures, and bloody killings, this film takes the empty and deserted city and the daily life of one person and one dog as the main tone, showing the loneliness and despair of a person living in the end times.
Will Smith's acting skills are very superb, the nature and shame in the face of dummy greetings, the sadness and helplessness when losing Sam, the chagrin of unsuccessful experiments, the hatred for zombies killing Sam, and the contradictions and conflicts that cannot communicate with humans after a long period of loneliness are all expressed by him with delicate emotions and intrusive performances.
He also won several awards for best actor, but in fact, will Smith almost missed the film in the beginning.
The film was very tortuous, as early as the 90s, there was an intention to produce, when the determined male protagonist was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and later stranded due to financial problems, it was finally determined that Will Smith starred, and the director was changed to Francis Lawrence.
In addition, Cameron Monaghan, who played the clown of the American drama "Gotham", auditioned for the little boy Ethan in the play when he was 7 years old, but unfortunately the movie was filmed for several years, and cameron Jr. had also moved, so he was ultimately unsuccessful.
The daughter of Robert in the film is the biological daughter of actor Will Smith, and because of her outstanding performance, she was also nominated for the "Best Actress Under 10 Award" that year.
The scenes in the film, Washington Square, Fifth Street, and viaduct are all filmed in real time, and the cost is staggeringly expensive.
Filming the Brooklyn Bridge retreat alone cost $5 million, which was expensive, but the effect was more realistic and added a lot to the film.
The reason why "I Am Legend" has become a classic is not only because of the novel plot and shocking pictures, but more importantly, the profound connotation contained in the film is thought-provoking.
Five years ago, Bill Gates had predicted the horror of the virus.
After the Ebola outbreak, Bill Gates thought that if there was anything that could kill tens of millions of people in the coming decades, it would not be the wars and missiles people thought, but more likely microbes, highly contagious viruses.
Now, it's exactly as he said.
As mentioned in the film, ignorant human beings are often the initiators of catastrophic events. As human beings, at the top of the food chain, we think we can dominate the world and do whatever we want.
Over the years, many precious species have lost their lives because of human greed; overexploitation of resources, serious pollution of the environment, global warming, and changes in the ecological environment.
Today, global warming has caused a large amount of ice and snow in the North and South Poles to melt, penguins, seals and polar bears have lost their living environment, skinny, and can only find food in garbage dumps; ancient viruses frozen in the ice and snow of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have also been released as temperatures rise and flowed to human settlements.
The acts of destruction caused by human beings to wild animals, nature, and the earth will eventually regurgitate human beings themselves and bring disasters to themselves. The virus in reality is raging, and the zombie night demons in the film occupy the city and drive humans to remote areas, all of which are the consequences of human beings eating themselves.
In mankind's exploration of the unknown world, is it welfare or disaster that changes the world and conquers nature? The decision is in the hands of human beings themselves.
Therefore, it is time to respect nature, to fear life, to love and protect the earth on which we live. Maybe that's the original intention of this film.
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